A Third Home for $500: The Absolute Truth About Vacation Home Real Estate Ownership 2011

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

“I need a second home like I need a colonoscopy.” Spent an hour on the phone with Wade Shealy, who is probably the most seasoned and knowledgeable man in the country when it comes to second home real estate, certainly the most honest. Wade is the founder of 3RD HOME, a web site for second home owners…

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Your Medicaid Dollars at Work on Strait Lane, Continued: Is Texas Hedge Fund Heaven?

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Remember how I told you about the Malouf’s amazing real estate acquisitions on Strait Lane? Now, I’m not judging here. For all we know, Dr. and Mrs. Malouf — he’s a dentist — could have inherited a bucketload of money or just belong to the Lucky Sperm Club. Well, maybe. Or not. Wednesday night WFAA’s…

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Dallas Area AVERAGE Home Prices Up, Purchases Down: Not Quite the Doom & Gloom Show!

By Candy Evans | June 9, 2011 |

Read Steve Brown and you might say what someone from last month’s ULI Conference told me they felt like doing after the opening session: committing suicide. Steve says north Texas pre-owned home purchases were down 15 percent in May — the 12th consecutive month of declines, a solid year of flushing. Real estate agents last…

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How to Jazz Up Your Next Open House: Buy a Triceratops?

By Candy Evans | June 8, 2011 |

I thought it was bad when I had a shrunken head in my house. But there’s probably one thing worse than a shrunken head in your house: the 21-foot-long boney remains of a flesh-eating dinosaur. On Sunday, Heritage Auction Gallery –third largest auction house in the country and rising — is offering what is probably…

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Your Medicaid Tax Dollars at Work Over on Strait Lane? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | June 7, 2011 |

I’m not going to do too much work here, going to defer to Byron Harris over at WFAA-TV Channel 8 to do most of the heavy lifting. Keep your eyes peeled to him for a report coming up involving these properties. My eyes are permanently peeled to Dallas real estate. In March, I was alerted…

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Own Chef Extraordinaire Tre Wilcox Cedar Hill Home for Less Than $300K

By Candy Evans | June 7, 2011 |

Bravo’s All-Star Chef  Tre Wilcox might be getting tired of moving boxes pretty soon. Seems like just a few months ago he moved from LOFT 610 to The Marquee Grill and Village Theater in Highland Park Village, which has quickly taken over Cafe Pacific as the darling lunch  be-seen diner for Park Cities/Preston Hollow Realtors.…

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